1 Libya violence: Fierce clashes in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi between Islamist militiamen and rival forces loyal to a renegade general have killed 31 fighters on both sides, a security official said Tuesday. The fighting erupted Monday, with forces and fighter jets belonging to Gen. Khalifa Hifter pounding positions of Islamist militias called The Benghazi Revolutionary Shura Council. Libya is witnessing its worst spasm of violence since former dictator Moammar Khadafy was toppled and killed in 2011.

2 Election warning: The campaign team of Abdullah Abdullah - the former foreign minister running against Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai for the presidency of Afghanistan - has issued a 24-hour notice to the United Nations and international observers that if changes are not made to the processes of the ongoing audit of all eight million votes cast in the second round of the election, they will back out of the election process entirely. Abdullah claims his concerns about widespread fraud in the June 14 runoff were ignored by the United Nations.

3 Saudi arrests: A top Saudi security official said Tuesday that police had arrested 88 men suspected of being part of an al Qaeda cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside of the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki did not give any details about the alleged plots, but said 59 of men arrested had previously served prison sentences for similar offenses. He said they were also planning assassinations. Al-Turki said Saudi forces "are serious in tracking down" anyone who joins a terrorist group.

4 Cabinet upheaval: Yemeni President Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi on Tuesday dismissed the Cabinet, including the prime minister who led it for two years, while partially reversing an earlier decision to lift fuel subsidies in a bid to end a standoff with Shiite rebels holding antigovernment protests across the country.

5 Ebola battle: The international group Doctor Without Borders warned Tuesday that the world is losing the battle against Ebola and lamented that treatment centers in West Africa have been "reduced to places where people go to die alone" as authorities race to contain the disease. Doctors Without Borders President Joanne Liu said her organization is completely overwhelmed by Ebola outbreak in four West African countries. She called on other countries to contribute medical personnel familiar with biological disasters.

6 Parents released: Spanish officials have ordered the immediate release of a detained British couple who were wanted by police in the United Kingdom after they took their critically ill child for treatment abroad without doctors' consent. Brett and Naghemeh King were pursued by police after they took 5-year-old Ashya out of a hospital in southern England against doctors' advice and traveled to Spain, where they planned to pay for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the U.S.